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EUGENE ONEGIN
Surtitles
Copyright January 30, 1999
BALTIMORE OPERA COMPANY - William Yannuzzi
ACT ONE
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Have you heard, beyond the woods,
the voice in the night singing of love's sorrow? |
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Or the simple, plaintive sound of
the pipe,
at dawn, when the fields were silent? |
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Have you heard? |
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Have you heard the simple plaintive
sound of the pipe? |
6,1,1 |
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Have you heard? |
6,2,2 |
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They're singing. I too used to sing
in those years long past, do you remember? |
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-You were young then.
-How I loved Richardson! Not that I'd read him... |
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...but in the old days the Princess
Alina,
my Moscow cousin, carried on about him. |
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Yes, I remember. Your husband was
then
your fiancé, and you were a bit unwilling. |
8,2,2 |
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You were dreaming of another, whose
heart
and mind pleased you much more. |
9,1,2 |
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-He was so dashing, and a sergeant
in the Guards. -So many years ago! |
10,1,1 |
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-I always dressed so well.
-In the latest fashion, and very becoming. |
10,2,2 |
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-Then, suddenly... -They married you
off without
further ado, and moved you here to the country. |
11,1,1 |
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How I cried at first!
I almost left my husband. |
11,2,2 |
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-Then I was busy running a house,
and I got used to it, and was content. -Thank God! |
12,1,2 |
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Heaven grants us habit
in exchange for happiness. |
13,1,1 |
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Yes, that's how it is!
Habit takes the place of happiness. |
13,2,1 1/2 |
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Clothes, novels, Princess Alina, my
notebook
of sentimental verse, I forgot them all. |
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